When it comes to flexible catheter shafts, Heraeus understands the importance of customizing a solution to your specific project needs. Leverage our engineer's experience with a variety of patterns that can provide varying degrees of flexibility and strength in hypotube shaft components for a broad range of catheters and other minimal-access medical devices.
Flexible Catheter Shafts
Flexible Catheter Shaft Design, Development, and Manufacturing Capabilities
- Continuous spiral patterns (laser-cut coils)
- Interrupted spirals
- Interlocking spirals
- Hinged patterns (limited degrees of freedom)
- Choice of laser-cutting pattern depends on design requirements, such as bend radius, axial and torsional strength, fatigue cycling, material properties, and hypotube size
- We can assist with Design For Manufacturability (DFM) review, and with quick-turn prototyping to facilitate design testing